Do You Cook Like Your Mom?

**staceyy** · 11-05-2005, 08:50 PM

Do you cook like your mom? Do you serve your family pretty much the same recipes that you grew up with? What were your favorite foods from your childhood?

My mom was a great cook and baker. Although I still make some of the dishes from my childhood my food choices are quite different. I eat many more whole grains than she cooked and more convenience foods. I also use the crockpot a lot. I do bake as much or more than my mom and I bake more gourmet desserts.I cannot duplicate her gravies and I don't even try.

Some of my favorite childhood memories are of rice pudding, all sorts of pies(especially pineapple), 7 Up pound cake and cinnamon coffee cake. My mom made great chicken fricasee,lamb stew, shrimp newburg and Heloise's Peking Roast.

I'm happy to say I've preserved some of the recipes from my past including several handed down from my grandmother.

**YankeeMom** · 11-05-2005, 09:27 PM

Um, no!
I'd have to say everything I do is the exact opposite of what my mom did

moneybags · 11-05-2005, 09:48 PM

No. My mom was a here's a chicken pot pie kind of cook.

**Missy** · 11-05-2005, 10:37 PM

no. my father had a very narrow set of things he'd eat. He had no sense of smell, so textures really seemed to bother him alot. So not much variety. Pretty much steak/roast/beef and potatoes, chicken and rice or porkchops/ham and something...veggies were either peas, peas and carrots, bean or corn. sometimes lasagne or spagetti. not much deviation from that.

I on the other hand love trying new things and new recipes. I am sure she'd have loved to also, but it wouldn't be met with much approval from my father. When we're on the phone and she asks what i cooked she often seems surprised. Sauerbraten, Elk (especially lately), HM Eggrolls, Asparagus, ChiliConQueso, beets, just these five things alone were surprising to her when she heard me say what i was making. I love finding and trying new recipes, I lucked out with a DH who has an iron gut, lol, even my flops he has happily eaten!!

**bamamomto4** · 11-05-2005, 11:27 PM

I think I do. My mom cooked from scratch.Steves mom cooked more convenience foods,so it took awhile to make Steve like "country/southern cookin". I still use convenience foods and try new recipes,but pretty much cook the way my mom did.
I do bake more than she did though.

Some of my favorites were...her pancakes,homemade biscuits and gravy...I can cook these just like hers,after yrs of trying,cornbread dressing,fried okra,homemade veggie soup....no matter how hard I try,and her telling me step by step,I still cant get mine to taste like hers. I think she is holding out on some secret ingredient lol
My grandmother cooked the same way as well....sure do miss her

**Dixie** · 11-05-2005, 11:31 PM

Tammy, I don't think there's better food in the world, than fried okra and southern cornbread dressing.

I don't cook like my late mom. She hated cooking and thought tv dinners were the best thing since sliced bread. I love to cook and detest most canned or frozen foods.

**voodidit** · 11-05-2005, 11:55 PM

No....to be honest I don't do much cooking.

**marym** · 11-06-2005, 12:42 AM

No, Mom was a career woman and hardly ever cooked. Grandmom did though

she taught me how to cook, she raised 12 kid through the depression and knew how to stretch things.
I was the only one she taught her crab cake recipe to and now everyone ask me to make them. Every time I make them I think of her (I miss her)

**daddys3chicks** · 11-06-2005, 03:20 AM

I think I cook like my Mom, my aunt, my grandma and my Dad. I still make meatloaf and salmon patties like my mom. I make chili like my Daddy always made it. I try to cook creatively and resourcefully like my grandma and aunt did.

**graci42** · 11-06-2005, 08:06 AM

No! If it didn't come in a box, Mom didn't cook it....Except for holidays...lol

In recent years, I have taught myself how to cook. Experimentation (visual: Graci in the midst of test tubes, "It's ALIVE!") is the key to learning. Sometimes I write down all my steps, others...cooking by the seat of my pants!

The best thing I have learned how to do is make bread...I don't know how many times I've thanked CJ for the Bread making Tutorial!! But THANKS AGAIN!!!!!

We eat better now than when I used boxed meals and I don't worry about "being the best preserved corpse" anymore! I believe that's why there is such a problem w/ weight in the US...additives and preservatives don't help.

Off the soap box!

Graci

**pammy** · 11-06-2005, 08:48 AM

NO! lol Thank goodness!! Bout 10 years ago she made Thanksgiving dinner for everyone, made it hours early, left the stuffing in the bird (!!!!) to which my dad hadda taste-test and wound up hurling the whole holiday.

Growing up it was Golden Fried Chicken on Thursday night, Pizza Hut on Friday night, some mexican food place on Saturday night and I can't remember the name. Dad cooked out on Sunday night, mmmm.... Monday-Wednesday night it was what us girls cooked, box spaghetti, salisbury steaks in those big tins at least once a week.

Nope, I grew up pretty much experimenting on my own. And it was an 'EUREKA' moment when I discovered cookbooks!! Now mom is in awe of MY cooking.

**Darlene** · 11-06-2005, 09:03 AM

Hmm, no. Meals weren't happy times in our house unless it was Sunday dinner & family came to visit. Sundays were good times & good food so my cooking is like her there but I try to do that every night, not just when company is coming.
More memorable are the things we didn't like that she made us sit at the table and eat till it was all gone. All of us spent hours at the table sometimes.
Got out of eating her cole slaw because I'd literally

Haha Mom,take that. Beat the system with that one.

I do (barely) remember she was a pretty good baker and made bread. I have yet to do that.

**Katybird** · 11-06-2005, 11:24 AM

My mother is a much better cook than I am. She was a single parent of 4 for much of my childhood and she cooked from scratch every meal and her food was always delicious. She still cooks from scratch and her meals are always delectable.

I cook some from scratch but I do not have any guilt feelings about using a box or mix if it is better than what I can make from scratch.

**duckduckgoose007** · 11-06-2005, 11:46 AM

Yes I guess I take after my Mom for cooking. My MIL taught me alot about stretching the foods I had.

My MIL also taught me to can, & she tried to teach me baking....but that did not work too well...LOL

To this day I really do not care to bake...but I sure like to eat it...

**bamamomto4** · 11-06-2005, 01:38 PM

Originally posted by daddys3chicks
salmon patties 

Steven loves those.Makes me sick to my stomach smelling them. I ate them as a kid and maybe thats why I hate them now.My mom cooked them EVERY week,sometimes more than once or twice!